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December 4, 2009
The Inflatable Nativity vs The True Meaning of Christmas
By Rev. Dan Vojir
Just what does the Christian Right want insofar as Christmas is concerned? Do they want us to manufacture more plastic, light-up nativity figures? There's a war on Christmas to be sure, but it's being fought with tastelessness
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Catholic News Agency:
New York City, N.Y., Dec 2, 2009 / 08:18 am (CNA).- Christians should not show timidity in cultural disputes over traditional Christmas songs, displays and Nativity scenes, the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights says. He charges such disputes are contrived by a small set of “mean-spirited people†who wrongly insinuate that many non-Christians are offended by Christmas.
Equal Time
It seems to me that Christians are rather mean-spirited about their own holiday: why can't other people celebrate that particular time of year in their own way and have that way acknowledged in similar fashion?
CNA spoke with Donohue in a Tuesday phone interview. He said that the “War on Christmas†largely began with the Catholic League's successful efforts to place a Nativity scene in the same New York City public park which hosted the world's largest menorah.
The Catholic League also sued the City of New York because miniature menorahs were displayed in public schools but Christian symbols were not.
On November 11, 2009, the American Family Association called for a "limited two-month boycott" of Gap, Inc over what they claimed was the "company's censorship of the word Christmas." In a advertising campaign launched by Gap on November 12, the term "Christmas" was both spoken and printed on their website at least once, and was part of a television ad campaign sung as: "Go Christmas, Go Hanukkah, Go Kwanzaa, Go solstice... go Christmas, go Hanukkah, go whatever holiday you Wannakuh".
The above is not shameless exploitation of a holiday, but a HIDEOUS exploitation of a holiday! I can see Glenn Beck weeping in front of it saying something like, "What a wonderful gesture and from such wonderful kids!"
How
many storefront churches are going to by this stuff? Probably hundreds.
And how many in-your-face Religious Right churches are going to boycott
it? Probably zero. They never did try to remove that glow-in-the-dark
plastic Jesus from people's cars, so why should they protest a tacky
setup like this? After all, this is not an attack on Christianity.
Now let's take a quick look at the other insidious ways secularists have been able to wage their War on Christmas: click on THIS (Are you sick yet?)
Authors Website: http://sacredcowsmakethebesthamburgers.blogspot.com
Authors Bio:
Rev. Dan Vojir is has been writing/blogging on religion and politics for the better part of ten years. A former radio talk show host (Strictly Books €" Talk America Radio Network) and book publisher, Dan has connected with some of the most interesting people of our time: Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Alan Ginsburg, Armisted Maupin, Anne Rice, Grace Slick, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Patricia Nell Warren, and Betty White.
He is also an ordained minister in the ULC and has studied extensively on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality. Additional articles can be read on his blog, The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Future goals and activities: a new ministry focusing on reaching personal spiritual levels without the outside influence of proselytism or evangelism called The Church of the Inner Preacher. This ministry will be included in a new website The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Vojir's main goal: to root out hypocrisy in religion and politics. "If only one person is saved from being killed or bashed by inane bigotry, then I'll have accomplished what I was put on earth to do: To Live and Help Live."
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